MY POTATO CARE SECRETS

I live in the village, and my daughter is in the city, but we seem to be like-minded people, we share our experience, and seeds, and saplings, or even ask for advice - she is with me, and I with her. I have a lot of land, however, the garden is only three acres, but there are two potato plots - in total, it turns out 20 acres. One field is low, damp, and the other is higher, where the earth warms up earlier in spring, and I start all spring work with it. Here I have bushes of currants, gooseberries, raspberries, strawberries, and the main crop is potatoes.

Previously, a lot of potatoes were planted, the land was plowed by collective farm tractors, and the retirees were cultivated for free, the cattle were fed and sold with potatoes, and a lot of manure was introduced. Today is a different time, there is no collective farm, there are no tractors, and it is a pity for the land, so we plant potatoes out of habit - more than necessary. And it's already hard to process, now I plant only 4 hundred parts, the rest is grass. We mow for hay, there used to be goats, but now there are no goats either, so I dry the hay and put it under raspberry bushes and mulch potatoes, and I just put it in the aisles.

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PLANTING THE POTATO - AGAINST THE RULES

I try to plant the potatoes early, before the soil moisture has left, but I look at the birch tree under the window. The leaves are blooming - which means it's time to plant, if there are frosts, then frost is not terrible in the ground for potatoes. Now I plant it by hand, I tried different planting methods: in a barrel, in bags, by sprouts, eyes (cut when it was necessary to multiply the desired variety as quickly as possible), tops, seeds through seedlings and even before winter - you can't describe everything! The Scarb variety was planted with cleanings (see photo) in the garden - there the land is fertile.

Now I don't bother planting whole medium-sized tubers (60-70 g), and if smaller, then two in one nest. I don't dig holes - it's already hard for me to carry a shovel, I chose the simplest for myself - the manual method (I will describe it - suddenly it will come in handy for someone).

I plant in even rows at a distance of 75 cm from each other, between the first and second rows - the aisle, into which after planting potatoes I sow and plant whatever I want - peas, beans, onions, cabbage of all kinds, oats and other crops or siderates in one row. And between the second and third rows I have a path. Although what to argue, I'd rather draw (see fig).

I loosen a 1 m wide strip with a digging pitchfork and make grooves at a distance of 75 cm with a sharp hoe. First, I go one way - the first row, turn and make another groove - the second row. I sprinkle both grooves with ash mixed with dry mustard and hot pepper (from wireworm), lay out the tubers, spray using a broom with a solution (1 tablespoon of ammonia, tar and diesel fuel per bucket) - from pests and rodents.

Then I take the bent pitchfork, the same digging ones (I bent it myself - I heated it red hot on the gas stove and bent it), and I fill the tubers with earth from the middle of the row spacing. In the row spacing, a groove is obtained - into it on the same day, while the earth is loose, I try to sow or plant early vegetables (as a compactor).

And once there was a case. It was a pity to throw out tomato seedlings, and I planted them against any rules. Most importantly, I know that tomatoes cannot even be planted next to potatoes, and there is nowhere to put the seedlings. Mulched with hay, grass. The potatoes were planted with early varieties - Vineta and Galatea, Lilea and Rosara. From the rains and dampness, he fell ill with late blight - within three days all the tops turned black and dried up. And the tomatoes surprised! In general, they did not get sick with anything and stood green until October. There were not so many of them in the fall, but I collected quite ripe, red and yellow ones.

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I did not feed them with anything, I only sprayed them twice with a solution of iodine, an infusion of garlic arrows and a decoction of needles.

I noticed long ago that tomatoes in the field are less sick, and I plant all the remaining seedlings in the field - there, in the wind and in the open, they seem to like it better.

But back to planting potatoes. As soon as all the tubers are in the ground, and I plant 8-10 buckets, I take my time to loosen the paths between the ridges and immediately spud. And then shoots appear: the potatoes are sprouted, but I again sprinkle them with my head.

You can sow mustard or phacelia on these paths - they then serve as mulch. Once I sowed flax in potatoes - just for fun (I bought seeds at the pharmacy). He grew and gave seeds, and the stems went to shelter the strawberries.

And I also like to plant flowers in curtains in a potato field - dahlias, asters and my favorite evening party. How beautiful a lilac-pink cloud looks against a green background! The scent spreads throughout the area, and all the bees flock. People come up and ask what kind of flowers are they? Never seen asking for seeds. I collected the seeds, it turned out to be a lot. Maybe someone needs it? Here they are in the photo, admire them.

I don’t have beetles on potatoes: perhaps they don’t find it in peas or mustard. Or the dampness affected, because the water even stood along the grooves.

Recently, some rats have been annoying - they live in the ground, brown ones, and their nose is like an iron. They make moves along the whole boletus, and there are almost no potatoes, only stubs. Twice I found their dwelling with a warehouse of potatoes, it is folded very neatly, in rows, and the rows are all even, of the same size.

VARIETIES OF POTATOES FOR IVANOVSK REGION - THE BEST OF THE BEST

For seeds, I select tubers from the most productive bushes and the cleanest, without damage. With this selection, many varieties have degenerated - they could not withstand the competition. Here are the best varieties in terms of yield and taste.

White rose - she is 35 years old, pink crown, flat-elongated tubers with white juicy pulp.
Scarb - he is 15 years old, high-yielding, well stored until the next harvest, does not germinate or wither.
Vineta - 7 years old, fruitful variety with yellow flesh.
Desiree and Jelly - 3 years, while they like it.

For one year, it rained throughout the spring and the first half of the summer, and there were difficulties with planting and processing. I planted only the early Vineta and Galatea in time, so they gave a normal harvest, and the rest of the potatoes were planted somehow right into the mud. I did not make grooves, I planted it under a lump, because it was very damp, and our earth is clayey. But then the rains stopped, the earth dried up and turned into concrete, just when it was time to dig early potatoes I thought I would be left without hands

Then it rained again, it became easier to dig, but the late potatoes did not give birth. True, I was still glad that the seeds did not disappear - there was enough for planting material, and for food, and there was almost no rotten seed.

I only dig in dry weather and dry directly on the site, and in the evening I fold it and take it straight to the storage place - to the basement.

I do not green seed potatoes, and we never water potato plantings on the site, we only hope for precipitation. Potatoes are stored well, probably because now there is almost no manure, only goat, and even then a little.

I sprinkle ash once before flowering, I put the mowed grass in the aisles and on the paths. I also collect a fallen leaf in autumn and early spring, close it up in furrows, trenches, and more often I cover winter plantings with garlic, onions, strawberries, and so as not to be blown away by the wind, I shake it with hay and grass from above. I don't have a greenhouse, only warm ridges.

I wish all summer residents and gardeners good luck and success in all their endeavors! May work bring joy, and let the earth feed us even in unfavorable years and heal all ailments: a person will always be rewarded for work.

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Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)
18/09/2021 (16:20) #

It is generally accepted that potatoes grow as a bush. However, it is not. A bush is a plant of several stems united by a common root system, and each potato stem has its own roots. Essentially what we call a potato bush. - these are several plants planted very densely, in a bunch.

In this case, the principle of half nutrition operates - the strongest plant consumes half of the nutrients, the second most powerful plant - half of the remaining, the third - half of the remaining after the second, and so on. To test this hypothesis, carefully so as not to damage the roots, I washed out several potato bushes with water from a hose. On one stem there were 3-4 large tubers, on the second - 1-2, on the rest of the stems the tubers did not exceed the size of a hen's egg. Leaving small tubers for seeds, we carry out artificial selection, multiplying the most oppressed plants, and from a bad seed there will be no good tribe - so we say that the variety is degenerating.
I plant potatoes in a garden bed in three rows, the distance in a row is 10-15 cm, row spacing is 25 cm. When planting, I leave two sprouts on each tuber. Plants, feeling a competitor next to them, develop more intensively, but do not oppress each other. The yield is one and a half to two buckets from a running meter of a garden bed, which, in terms of a hundred square meters, gives over one and a half tons of potatoes!

The dug tubers are thoroughly washed and soaked for half an hour in a phytosporin solution. After drying, the tubers are sorted and sent to the basement for storage.
Konstantin